USC Social Psychology (MWF 1:30-2:30 class)

[Yu-jin]

.hmm.i kinda agree..

.the last question sir posted I think is a trivia question of the central meaning of the song "Lucy ..." by beatles... But the last task is for us to view the film (15pts once done)and make a reaction(another 15pts).

Ya it was really a trivia, but I'm not really referring to those questions. The more puzzling once are like the Galactic Humans and... oo ang film. Well they are related but technically we have not covered the basic things. ( or maybe there are.) I think that a scheduled conference would really clear up and make the flow of the discussion smoother =).

Just a Suggestion:
Maybe ask each one of us a certain task? topic? insights? and post it and then everyone can dig in and comment. And when we comment on it or make the post. WE do it as a new thread so it will be more efficient and faster to search and grade. Maybe make a format?

For example:

Si Student A is assigned to find anything about this certain theory. Student A then makes a New thread in the forums and reports on what he has find. Then the rest of the class go their and make their comments or whatever is needed to be graded. and para neat and nobody would keep on saying sir wala pako grade and ask to look a certain post #, each one would make only 1 post and Sir Reggie can have one post that contains all the grades =).

Well this is just a suggestion cause I got dizzy from jumping from one page to another to get the flow of the discussion.

[Yu-jin]

Unsai naa ugma? Worried bitaw ko. . DAGHAN KAA.u ug wala pa na check.an n answers nku. . Tsk. . Ma.au mu kai daghan namu points. . Dili sad ko tagdun f mu.remind ku. . Hahai. .

OT: Uhm naa ni ingon and not from me that only 3 passed sa ato midterms.

[Eliza Imee Cajegas]

Nex question for 10 points again!

Explain in your own words the meaning of "pakikisama" as a cultural value that we inherit from our peers?

Okay, let me begin by stating that culture and values are not innate or inborn, rather they are learned by the child from his environment. "Pakikisama" (for me at least) is when a person behaves in a certain way so that his status among his peers becomes stable or "levels up". THis is learned through Operant Conditioning where if he or she does something agreeable to his or her peers, he will receive a reinforcement, therefore strengthening the person's desire to repeat the behavoir. The pressure from peers to conform especially in adolescence (where teens depend on their groups for their identity and where cliquishness and intolerance of diffence is prevalent) is great. So that, teens end up being "forced" to do things they normally wouldn't.

Example:
A girl goes out with her friends and ends up going home later than her curfew. The reason? Her friend teased her and called her "Kj" or "Kill Joy". The girl, feeling the pressure, decided to stay later than she normally would.

Also, from another point of view, "pakikisama" is also a form of adaptation that helps humans survive socially.

Source: My mind.. Hehe. .

[jiet_rica]

Ya it was really a trivia, but I'm not really referring to those questions. The more puzzling once are like the Galactic Humans and... oo ang film. Well they are related but technically we have not covered the basic things. ( or maybe there are.) I think that a scheduled conference would really clear up and make the flow of the discussion smoother =).

Just a Suggestion:
Maybe ask each one of us a certain task? topic? insights? and post it and then everyone can dig in and comment. And when we comment on it or make the post. WE do it as a new thread so it will be more efficient and faster to search and grade. Maybe make a format?

For example:

Si Student A is assigned to find anything about this certain theory. Student A then makes a New thread in the forums and reports on what he has find. Then the rest of the class go their and make their comments or whatever is needed to be graded. and para neat and nobody would keep on saying sir wala pako grade and ask to look a certain post #, each one would make only 1 post and Sir Reggie can have one post that contains all the grades =).

Well this is just a suggestion cause I got dizzy from jumping from one page to another to get the flow of the discussion.

.nyc.. but, we must inform sir bout this, if he agrees to the idea/suggestion.

[Eliza Imee Cajegas]

OT: Uhm naa ni ingon and not from me that only 3 passed sa ato midterms.

OT: Sa 103 o sa 101? OMG. . APil nka a2 kuya. .

[Yu-jin]

.nyc.. but, we must inform sir bout this, if he agrees to the idea/suggestion.

Of course! Time to use the power of Persuasion. Sayang text message ra pwede. Dili ang da usual " SSSSSSSSSiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr~!!

[Eliza Imee Cajegas]

Ok let us go further. Please read some excerpts of the book "The Phenomenon of Man" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ!

Your comments are graded!

Everything does not happen continuously at any one moment in the universe. Neither does everything happen everywhere in it.
There are no summits without abysses.
When the end of the world is mentioned, the idea that leaps into our minds is always one of catastrophe.
Life is born and propagates itself on the earth as a solitary pulsation. In the last analysis the best guarantee that a thing should happen is that it appears to us as vitally necessary

-The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre teilhard de chardin


Teilhard’s evolutionary theory was about the mind as well as the physical world. He believed it was not enough that we had worked out that we had evolved from the apes - our task was to reach the point where we knew why we had evolved. The evolutionary biologists of today have ample evidence that the human brain has not changed in thousands of years, but just because we have the same brain structure does not mean we are the same beings. Teilhard believed that when humankind began living in the state of reflectiveness, our progress was inevitable; we would enjoy ‘not only survival, but super-life’.
Although he saw The Phenomenon of Man as a scientific treatise, he was impatient with overspecialisation, and took the paradoxical position that science could only come of age when it went beyond seeing man only in terms of the physical body: 'The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world'. Teilhard's human being was a phenomenon which had yet to be properly explained either in the sciences or the humanities, and the quests, achievements and events of human history had to be looked on as one whole movement. We are now so used to the word 'mankind' that it has almost ceased to be an idea, yet in fact it is a very young idea, based on the recognition of unity, despite all the wars, division of territories and cultural differentiation.
For Teilhard, man is not the centre of the world, but the ‘axis and leading shoot of evolution’. It is not that we will lift ourselves above nature, but in our intellectual and spiritual quests dramatically raise the complexity and intelligence of nature. The more complex and intelligent we become, the less of a hold the physical universe has on us. ‘Hominisation’ was the process of humanity becoming more human, or the fulfilment of its potential.

Source: The Phenomenon of Man (1955) Teilhard de Chardin

My Opinion/ Comment/Reaction:

Based on the excerpts and reviews, I think his book is beautiful. I'd like to read it sometime. . Anyway, what I've understood from my research on the topic is that Chardin supported the theory of evolution but also took into consideration the uniqueness of the human being. In short, he accepted that humans and apes are similar in some ways but diffrent also in the aspects of intellectual and spiritual quests which set us apart from lower form of animals. Man then, does not just behave or think like his close realtives the apes but he also has his on special influences brewing within him.

[Yu-jin]

OT: Sa 103 o sa 101? OMG. . APil nka a2 kuya. .

We will find out tomorrow. Don't despair lang gyud remember that failure is part of getting successful.

A quote from Thomas Edison after failing six hundred times on an experiment
"Don't call it a mistake, Call it an education"

[Eliza Imee Cajegas]

We will find out tomorrow. Don't despair lang gyud remember that failure is part of getting successful.

A quote from Thomas Edison after failing six hundred times on an experiment
"Don't call it a mistake, Call it an education"

Okay2. . I hope diku ma.learned helplessness ani. . Haha. . Uie, I totally agree with your suggestion. . Mura xiag smung p.e13 nga website na ing.ana2 pd ug styl. .

[Yu-jin]

Okay2. . I hope diku ma.learned helplessness ani. . Haha. . Uie, I totally agree with your suggestion. . Mura xiag smung p.e13 nga website na ing.ana2 pd ug styl. .

English please? wala ko kasabot sa smung p.e13?
Samsung P.E. 13 model?